Episode Report Card Alex Richmond: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Judge Ling
By Alex Richmond | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 11.04.2001
El Shrinkador asks whether they lost the case, then. Ally says it doesn't look good. Like her hair. The Shrink is like, go to the boy. Do the boy. You and the boy? Go do it. Because it's a "transitional love" thing, that Ally must "journey" through to get to the real love thing. Like college? I don't get it. Except that if Ally and Glenn don't do it soon, I'm going to scream.
Jenny's in her office, which is full of boxes. Glenn enters. Jenny's beating herself up because she chose Dame Edna as the main plaintiff in the case without meeting her, and she only got her job at Cage & Fish because of this case, and her dad told her "every time [she] screw[s] up, [she] pops a freckle, and LOOK!" Wow, didn't Michael Jackson's dad says something similar to him? That's a sign of a bad dad. Could this be part of Jenny's issues? Oh, screw you, DEK, for making me think this way. And Jenny misses Glenn. Is that a crime? No. He misses her, too. Is it a bad idea that they work together? And she still loves him. Is that okay, too? Glenn grabs Jenny's head between his hands and squeezes it like a zit. No, I wish. He does seem to give her cute freckled head a tender squeeze. They touch foreheads, then Ally walks in. Whoops. She leaves. Jenny is all, I think she LIKES you! Do you like her? Check in this box if you do. Because Jenny wouldn't mind! Ally pops her head in and out at this little speech from Jenny, but waits to hear what Glenn will say. He doesn't say anything, so Ally mentions that the clerk has called with the news that the judge made his ruling.
John has on his beefy bodysuit. It's made of gel. There's also a butt pad. "Won't people detect the fraud?" Coretta suggests going away to a spa for a week before donning the suit in public. She gasps when she sees the butt pad. Oh, lord. I hope no one minds if I'm liberal in my interpretation of her gasp. Like, please let it be a gasp not of delight? A gasp of anything other than delight? Please?
Ling's in her chambers, with Nelle perched on the desk. Could these two be any more off the show? And that doesn't make me happy. They may as well phone in their performances, though. It's just a bummer to see two good actresses get nudged out like this. Not deserving! But whatever, it's DEK. There's a knock on her door. A TV station manager, from the case Ling dismissed earlier, comes in. He's offering Ling her own judge show. She's cuter than Judge Judy, after all. But Judge Mills Lane? No one is cuter then he. Just kidding. No, I'm not. The TV station manager is all, "Seven figures" and "We'll pay you to be a bitch!" ["Damn, where's my TV show, then?" -- Wing Chun] Nelle gets her third line of the show in, muttering, "And she's happy being one for free!" Ling likes the idea, of course. Oh, Ling's off the show. I'm sad.